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James Davis

James Davis (Born 1940) is active/lives in Australia.  James Davis is known for Figurative, expressionist, surreal painting.

James Davis was born 1940 in Sydney.  Studied National Art School and Julian Ashton’s School of Fine Art, Sydney.

Lived in Northern Europe, 1960s, principally in Amsterdam and Berlin.  Influenced by the abstract expressionist movement and Willem De Kooning’s figurative, abstract forms.

In his early thirties, Davis abandoned painting, intending to return to art after a year or two, however, this was not to occur for another fifteen years. It was a further four years in 1989 before the artist held his first solo exhibition at David Ellis Fine Art Gallery in Melbourne.

Davis’ return to art was marked by a commitment to figurative, expressionist art and social comment centred around the Melbourne suburbs of Fitzroy and Collingwood.

In 1993 the artist returned to Europe for another three years, living and working in Budapest (Hungary), Tabor (Czech Republic) and Antwerp (Belgium) where he painted a new body of work relating to his Hungarian and Czech ex   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2502 characters.]  Artist bio

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